Article 311 of the Penal Code

  Penal Code

They will be punished with prison sentences of six months to six years and a fine of six to twelve months:

1. Those who, through deception or abuse of a situation of necessity, impose working or Social Security conditions on the workers in their service that harm, suppress or restrict the rights that they have recognized by legal provisions, collective agreements or contract individual.

2. Those who simultaneously employ a plurality of workers without communicating their registration in the corresponding Social Security regime or, where appropriate, without having obtained the corresponding work authorization, provided that the number of affected workers is at least less than:

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a) twenty-five percent, in companies or work centers that employ more than one hundred workers,

b) fifty percent, in companies or work centers that employ more than ten workers and no more than one hundred, or

c) all of them, in companies or work centers that employ more than five and no more than ten workers.

3. Those who, in the event of transfer of companies, with knowledge of the procedures described in the previous sections, maintain the aforementioned conditions imposed by another.

4. If the conduct outlined in the previous sections is carried out with violence or intimidation, higher penalties will be imposed.

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